[syslinux] Chain loading hard disk with gPXELinux

Miller, Shao
2009-05-12T13:03:23Z

Good day Tim,

As a matter of fact, gPXE -> PXELINUX -> chain.c32 -> HDD "0"
isn't
silly at all.  I think I've given a sample setup in this mailing list
before; maybe you could search for them by author or something.

I can't speak towards fixing this bug, sorry.

- Shao Miller

-----Original Message-----
From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On
Behalf Of Tim Franssen
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 08:38
To: syslinux at zytor.com
Subject: [syslinux] Chain loading hard disk with gPXELinux

Hello syslinux mailing list,

I've been working on a kind of system administration tool (
http://twyna.sourceforge.net/) with a colleague of mine for our Computer
Science Bachelor degree internship. I hope I'm saying that right :)

We use gPXELinux to boot over a web service and it's all working
marvellously, except for the localboot bug. Until now we've used
chain.c32
to solve this problem, however we're running into some problems with
some
hardware, especially in situations where Windows is (also) installed on
a
machine. Running chain.c32 with hd0 as parameter just crashes the
machine
for some reason.

My question is the following: will the localboot bug get fixed at some
point
in the near future, or isn't anyone interested in it? And if the latter,
what could be causing our problems and how could we fix or circumvent
them?

I've been thinking that we could PXE boot into gPXE and use that to boot
PXELinux, but that just seems silly.

Your feedback is very much appreciated,

With kind regards,
Tim
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